How your blood may predict your future health
by Kat Arney from on (#34KWP)
New research into bloodstream 'biomarkers' aims to unlock the full impact of social status on people's lifetime health outcomes. The key is exposure to stress
Health is a well-known inequality issue. While ageing is inevitable and most of us will get sick at some point, the rate of your decline is likely to be faster the lower down the socioeconomic ladder you started.
The intriguing thing is, nobody exactly knows why. Tempting though it is to blame the usual suspects - poor diet, obesity, smoking - they don't account for the whole story.
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